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Alessandro Marianantoni
email: alex at hypermedia.ucla.edu
ALESSANDRO MARIANANTONI is currently a visiting researcher at the Hypermedia Studio in the School of Theater, Film and Television, working as a system integrator in in the Advanced Technology for Cinematography project, which focuses on the use of emerging technologies for media production. At the Studio, he is also developing interactive media-rich installations. Alessandro was born in Italy; he earned a computer science B.A. at the University of L’Aquila. Between 2002 and 2003 he was a research assistant intern at USC’s Integrated Media Systems Center where he wrote his thesis in computer vision Perceptual Interfaces: Head Pose Estimation from a single camera with Profs. Gérard Medioni and Isaac Cohen. Afterwards, he worked with the University Of Florence, School Of Architecture as a technical advisor with graduating students whose thesis were about interactive architectures. Alessandro helped students with the application side of the sensor systems. During this collaboration, he worked also as an interactive designer in a structural plan of the historic city of Florence. He wrote technical solutions for the interaction between people and buildings in a couple of squares included in the plan.
During his university studies he worked producing numerous web projects for local organizations, for the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction and for the Athletics Rieti Meeting International Association of Athletics Federation Grand Prix. In his town Rieti, between 2001 and 2002 he obtained funds from the “Regione Lazio” to develop several educational projects about the themes of the local traditions and the European identity. He hired teachers and realized a cd-rom multimedia diary with the students of the middle and the elementary school. Between 1995 and 2001, he taught: web design classes at the Public Young Center, computer classes as a volunteer at Deaf-Dumb Italian Agency, math and physics for the middle and the high school students.
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